Unbeknownst to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a photograph of him taken this day on the balcony of the White House will prove to be his last. Soon, he will succumb to an assassin’s bullet. Far away in Florida, also this day, Confederate forces triumph in what will prove to be one of the South’s last…
In South Carolina Union troops of the 12th Indiana Infantry are defeated by Confederate forces in the skirmish of Gamble’s Hotel in Florence, South Carolina. Albeit meaningless in the course of the war, the moment is a rare triumph for the Confederacy at this late date in the great conflict. Meanwhile Private Elijah J. Marrs…
Black Baptists, like other black Americans, adore Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the president’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Lincoln has repeatedly been heralded as the Moses of black Americans. By way of contrast, many white Baptists of the South, and other white Southerners, have long ridiculed Lincoln as the “black president” while…